The British sect Exhibition i: gular policy of the 70 per cent for ing all the foreign per cent. Owing, perhaps, to the friction set up by recent' political events, several British artists preferred to be unrepresented, and collectors also showed a disposition to hold aloof. Sir Edward Paynter and his colleagues of the Fine Arts Committee have nevertheless managed to get together nearly 500 examples of the British art of the last ten years—a larger display than that of any other foreign country, except the United States. Out of 38 Royal Academicians, 29 are represented. The absence of one prominent name, that of Mr J. W, Waterhouse, is due to the fact that the Manchester Corporation declined to lend "Hylas and the Nymphs." Fortunately for the reputation of British art, other civic bodies were less jealous of their treasures. The City of London, for stance, has lent two pictures by Sir John Gilbert and the Preston Corporation a painting by Mr E. A. Waterlow.
The oil paintings are arranged in four rooms on the first floor of the Grand Palais, almost directly opposite the main entrance. The drawings, engravings, and water colours are in the gallery immediately outside
grouped together on the ground floor these soos,—the sculpture exhibits are immediately below. The ection is thus very compact and easy to view. Unfortunately, very few of the exhibits are yet numbered, and the innocent visitor who pays his three franes for a catalogue and expects to obtain all necessary information from it is liable to grievous disappointment. He is obliged to search for the name in the corner of the picture, and if the artist should happen to have several works on view, the title of the picture under examination can only be found out by the deductive process. Furthermore, the printed list of British art exhibits is full of absurd blunders, the French authorities having forgotten to allow the British representatives to correct a proof of their own section; and several works are omitted altogether The President of the Royal Academy is represented by a water-colour and three oil paintings. One of these, '*The Dan-auf has consequently not Deen seen cing Girl," was completed quite recently ublic before. The figure of the dancer in her transparent pink drapery, the ma ble floor and Oriental surroundings are treated with all Sir Edward Poynter's minuteness of dotal Of Mr. G. F. Watts we have the well-known " Naples" and The Idle Child of Fancy" as well asa fine portrait of Mr. George Meredith and another of Miss McCullum. Among other portraits—a strong feature of the British section—are those of Mr, John Hare, one of Sir John Millais' strongest works; of Sir Walter Gilbey, by Mr W. Q. Orehardson of Sir George Taubman Goldie, by Professor Hubert Herkomer; of Sir E. Hume.
son; of Princess Troubelzkoy Alfred Lyall, by the Marchioness BL. Porteous and Robert: Harris, Pr sident of th 1 Academy of Cin of Mrs Carstairs Douglas, by Mx.
Lockhart; of Sir A. Holden and Mr, G. H. Pember, by Mr. W, W. Ouless; of the late Professor Mitchell by Six George Reid, President of the Royal Scottish Academy of Miss Dorothea Baird as ruby," by Mr. James Sant; and a fascinating Portrait' of a Lady® by Mx. Richard Jao In addition to Millais' portrait Mr. Hav have the late Presi-cham "Old Garden," a work as ly English as the still unopened tional building in the Exhibition grounds. Vhe value attached to this picture is shown by the fact that it is insured for no less thin six thousand pounds. Of Tord Leighton there are six examples, including Ri " "The Return of Persephone,"
ud a couple of studies. Ther are six drawings by Sir E. Hume-Jones and two oil paintings, including "Lancelot's Dream." Sir L, Alma-Tadema is re-Sir Frank Dieksee by "Dawn" and "The resented by "Spring" and "The Kiss
Confession Frederick Goodall in Egypt;" Mr.
by the well-known " Boulter and two charming water-colours, fall of sunshine and the fresh air of the fields; Mr. B. W. Leader by 'A Flooded Road and a small landscape "The Burden," a departure from his usual Mr, John Seymour Lucas by " King 1 St Paul's" and "Phyllis is my Only Joy the late "Mr, John Pettie by "Sylvia," the oldest picture in the collection; Mr. Val Prinsep by ""Cinderella;" and Mi Briton Riviere by" The Tempation in the Desert." and "Faithful unto Death." Mr. C, Napier Horny sends alarge new water-colour which will rank among his very best. Itshowsa smuggler's boat, heeling over, almost on her beam-ends, in her efforts to escape the clutches of a revenue cuttoo. Some of the lawbreakers are lying flat in the stern, keeping up a hot fire with their muskets, while their comrades work like fiends te set every stitch of canvas. The whole composition is full of life and movement. Mr. G. D. Leslie bassa well-drawn but somewhat cold landscape "4 Village in the Cotswolds." Mr. Frank Bringwyn'scurious outlines are discernible in The Market at_Bushire;" and Mr. John Charlton's "Battery Changing Ground" would have passed very well for a South African war picture if the artist had only had sufficient forethought to put his artilleryman in khaki instead of blue.
The water-colours, a really excellent collection, include three very good specimens of 'Thomas Collier; Mr. J. C, Doll-man's "Hawks dinna pick oot hawks'
three charming little sketches of
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